A huge collection of online streaming videos from Alexander Street Press. To search or browse specifically for Philosophy-related material, click on Disciplines in the tab-bar, and select Religion & Thought from the list of sub-disciplines. ...Show More

Multi-subject including humanities, world history, American history, current affairs, and area studies.

A huge collection of online streaming videos which were previously available in individual collections covering the specific subject areas listed above. To search or browse for material in these subject areas, select from the list of "disciplines" on the opening screen. ...Show More

A huge collection of online streaming videos from Alexander Street Press. To search or browse specifically for Theology-related material, click on Disciplines in the tab-bar, and select Religion & Thought from the list of sub-disciplines. ...Show More

A huge collection of online streaming videos covering many subject areas. It’s the main one of several collections available in Alexander Street Press Video. You can browse or search in specific disciplines. NOTE: The Library’s subject lists of databases include links to specialised subject collections within VAST: Academic Video Online. For more information, click on the “Show more” link. ...Show More

CSU Library subscribes to a number of video collections provided by Alexander Street Press. The main one is a collection known as VAST: Academic Video Online, which is a huge collection with content across a range of subject areas.

VAST has subject content organised in a number of "disciplines". You can choose to search across the whole collection, or select a discipline to search or browse. Within a discipline you can choose further sub-disciplines. To see the full range of subject areas covered by VAST: Academic Video Online, click on Disciplines in the tab-bar that appears within all VAST screens.

There are several disciplines and sub-disciplines that might be of interest to CSU users. These are available in their own right via the links below, or from the Library's subject lists of databases, available from the Journal Databases home page ...

VAST: Academic Video Online: Art & Design is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It covers art history and theory, and architectural and graphic design.

Content includes documentaries and interviews.

The collection can be searched using Basic or Advanced Search, and/or browsed in a number of ways. The collection has a number of features that assist in its use as an educational resource:

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

VAST: Academic Video Online: Criminal Justice & Public Safety is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It features strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety.

Content includes documentaries, training videos, and interviews.

The collection can be searched using Advanced Search, and/or browsed in a number of ways. The collection has a number of features that assist in its use as an educational resource:

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

VAST: Academic Video Online: History is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It covers trade and exploration, the American Revolutionary Era, the American Civil War, imperialism and colonialism, World War I, the jazz age, the post-World War II era, the sixties, women's history, black History, and international newsreels.

Content includes documentaries, commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs and archival footage.

The collection can be searched using Basic or Advanced Search, and/or browsed in a number of ways. The collection has a number of features that assist in its use as an educational resource:

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

VAST: Academic Video Online: Politics & Current Affairs is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It covers American government, comparative government; international political science; political geography; and public administration.

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

VAST: Academic Video Online: Science & Engineering is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It "offers a wide-ranging survey of engineering, environmental studies, natural history, and the physical and biological sciences, and focuses on their practical, ground-level applications".

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

VAST: Academic Video Online: Social Sciences is a subset of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection of videos produced by Alexander Street Press. It covers "exploration into humanity's interpersonal nature across politics, the criminal justice system, business, religion, psychology, public safety, anthropology, education, and studies of the environment and current events."

Content includes field recordings, documentaries, newsreels, and counselling transcripts and sessions.

The collection can be searched using Basic or Advanced Search, and/or browsed in a number of ways. The collection has a number of features that assist in its use as an educational resource:

annotated playlists: users can make, annotate, and share playlists and clips, and can include links to materials or resources outside the collection;

sharing of video by embeddable links.

Once in this database you can search/browse in other "disciplines" in the VAST collection. You can also access the full VAST collection at VAST: Academic Video Online. You can search/browse across all the Alexander Street Press video collections at Alexander Street Press Video.

Vetstream provides veterinary professionals with an online resource of clinical information for the veterinary treatment of the dog, cat, rabbit, and horse.

The Canis, Felis, Lapis, and Equis "services" each include peer-reviewed point-of-care content which in turn includes both text and multimedia items. The multimedia material includes images, sound and videos.

As an indication of the extent of this resource, at January 2013 the Canis module on its own comprised nearly 7000 items: 2639 text items; 4103 images, videos, and sounds; and 142 owner factsheets.

Subject content includes:

body systems

diseases

diagnostic procedures

surgical and medical treatments.

One feature of this resource is the owner factsheets, which are designed to support communication with animal owners. These factsheets are designated in results lists by an icon with a blue circle within a page.

The resource is updated weekly.

Vetstream's Clinical Content includes a link to Vetmed Resource (a Veterinary Science database of bibliographic records) but please note that CSU’s subscription does not include access to Vetmed Resource.

Victorian Audit Library Information Service Database (VALISE), produced by the Victorian Auditor-General's Office, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles on auditing and related business topics.

Source documents are, on a selected basis, a variety of Australian and overseas journals. Coverage favours Victorian material, but extends to all Australian states, as well as some British, American, Canadian and New Zealand material. Coverage 1988 - .

Subject coverage includes auditing; internal auditing; public finance; public administration; selected articles on business, politics and economic conditions as they relate to public affairs; computing; management and training information with a government bias; and a small number of Victorian government media releases.

The merged database of various former Victorian government agencies including the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and which incorporates Department of Sustainability and Environment material. ...Show More

The merged database of various former Victorian government agencies including the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and which incorporates Department of Sustainability and Environment material. ...Show More

The merged database of various former Victorian government agencies including the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, and which incorporates Department of Sustainability and Environment material. ...Show More

Victorian Primary Industries and Environment Library Catalogue (VPI&E) is produced by the Knowledge and Information Branch of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, and is the merged database of various former agencies including the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

It is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts books, reports, theses, video recordings, manuscripts and pictorial matter in the Knowledge Resource Centre at Werribee, and small regional collections of the Department of Primary Industries, and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

A group of 5 online programs covering anatomy and physiology through interactive 3D models, animations, images, and quizzes....Show More

Visible Body is a group of online programs that cover anatomy, physiology, muscles, the skeleton, and the circulatory system through interactive 3D models, animations, images, and quizzes. The programs are also available as apps for mobile.

CSU subscribes to the five of the seven Visible Body modules:

Human Anatomy Atlas: a 3D visualisation-and-learning tool for exploring the systems of the human body. It includes more than 4,000 medically-accurate anatomical structures covering systemic and regional anatomy.

Physiology Animations: a comprehensive collection of nearly 70 videos that illustrate the core physiological processes of the human body.

CSU does not subscribe to the Anatomy & Physiology or Anatomy & Function modules. They are greyed out on the Visible Body landing page.

To get started, you need to click on one of the modules, then,

if you are using a computer, there will be Launch button. Depending on which browser you are using, you might see two buttons: Launch Web Player; and Launch WebGL. The Web Player version requires the free software Unity Web Player 4.3+ (required for viewing 3D content), but note that this software is no longer supported;OR

if you are using a mobile device, click on the mobile access link to access the app.

A free international German- and English-language literature database in the field of viticulture and enology. Does not contain full-text. ...Show More

VITIS-VEA (Viticulture and Enology Abstracts) is a free international literature database which provides bibliographic data, keywords, and abstracts (where possible) of scientific papers in the field of viticulture, enology , and related fields.

The database is available in English and German. There is a component of the database – abstracts of technical articles from German journals – which is available in German only, as "Informationsdienst praxisbezogener Literatur im Weinbau".

Subject coverage includes:

Grapevine morphology, physiology, and biochemistry

Soil science

Genetics and grapevine breeding

Phytopathology and grapevine protection

Cellar techniques

Economics of viticulture and enology

Enology

Microbiology of wine

Data sources are predominantly journals (350 of), but also include books and conference proceedings.

VOCEDplus, produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), is a free Australian research database covering tertiary education, especially as it relates to workforce needs, skills development, and social inclusion.

Note: when you search in this database, the default operator between search terms is OR. This applies in both the simple search box and in Advanced Search (unless a specific field is selected). See Search Tips.

N.B. Terms and Conditions of Use

These resources are for CSU staff and students only.Do NOT give your username and password to any other person.

These electronic resources are for non-commercial use in your personal research or study only. Users do not have permission to systematically download or copy large amounts of these resources, thereby creating their own databases; or to distribute these resources to third parties. For further information on the terms and conditions by which users can access these electronic resources, refer to the terms and conditions information on the electronic resource itself or contact the Library.